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by Niten 14y ago
Well if you read through the post, especially Linus's follow-up comments, you'll find that his very point is this distinction between the truth of these technically correct, weasel-worded statements and the bigger picture. Sentencing is ult
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by Niten 14y ago
You indulge in too many fallacies here to address individually, but since you bring healthcare into the discussion, the bottom line is that we know that government-run healthcare works. See: almost every other developed Western country, wh
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by Niten 14y ago
In case you didn't realize it, tax rates closer on par with other developed countries are a perfect solution to that problem.
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by Niten 14y ago
It completely baffles me how any reasonable person could look at the retirement and health benefits situation in our country and come to the conclusion that our problem is being too generous to the working class. Yes, the private sector has
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by Niten 14y ago
OK but before we all get on the public shaming bandwagon, I ask whether you know for sure that Ortiz is the primary target of Lessig's (rightful) criticism here? I know Ortiz was involved, but Lessig doesn't explicitly name Ortiz in this a
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by Niten 14y ago
I'm perfectly fine with that, but you seem confused about the argument here. GPL code distributors don't have the right to say curiosity, or any other reason, is invalid cause to enforce the GPL. And while I do not have standing to request
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by Niten 14y ago
> If it's curiosity, well, I wish we weren't enforcing that with the GPL. It's simple, either you comply with the GPL or you don't distribute GPL-based code. As an author of GPL licensed software, I think it's pretty damned arrogant fo
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by Niten 14y ago
Because of the GPL, companies using Linux are required to release the kernel modifications they made to get it running on this wide variety of hardware, and this improves Linux as a whole. EDIT: This article's extreme focus on the consume
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I had no idea about that, thanks
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As much as I don't like Microsoft, I actually think the .NET CLR would be an excellent choice for such a runtime. NaCl not so much; target architecture-dependent compiled code is a major downside.
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by Niten 14y ago
Yeah I'm surprised to see them essentially drop support for this common workflow... downloading auto-tarballed tagged SCM commits is insufficient for Autotools projects, or other situations where you need to do pre-processing on your source
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by Niten 14y ago
I am by no means a Microsoft fan or Windows developer, but if auto-generated code is that big of a deal to the author then he really needs to spend some time playing with Visual Studio...
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by Niten 14y ago
But like I explained in detail above, using Mercurial bookmarks it is tedious to avoid pushing your throw-away branch to the main repository, and you can't simply delete the branch when you're done with it. Git is much superior in this reg
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by Niten 14y ago
More options, certainly, but I find git to be much more painless in this regard. Mercurial doesn't have anything equivalent to git's convenient workflow for creating temporary, local throwaway branches, without changing to a new working di
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by Niten 14y ago
I use both extensively (git for most personal projects, Mercurial at work), so I feel like chiming in here. I really do think that Mercurial's user interface is easier for beginners to pick up, and more difficult to shoot oneself in the foo
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by Niten 14y ago
Dalvik isn't the JVM, and Android is more than Dalvik. Android applications can also rely on ARM binaries developed against the NDK, so full ARM emulation is required in order to realistically test these.
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by Niten 14y ago
Is it brash to suggest that maybe those "8 white guys" actually did have the most merit out of all candidate speakers, and that you would have done the conference a disservice by bumping one of them for someone else, based on sex or gender
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by Niten 14y ago
> I was excited until I saw "use autotools". People love to gripe about autotools, but if you take the time to understand it and get comfortable with what it is and is not, it will get the job done. There are alternatives like cmake, bu
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by Niten 14y ago
First this is patent, not copyright law. And the issue is that Apple has effectively committed libel against Samsung in the UK with its repeated claims that the Samsung tablet is a copy of the iPad. This claim has turned out to be legally f
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by Niten 14y ago
Cool stuff... Andrew Ng's excellent Machine Learning course on Coursera also had a programming exercise that involved using k-means to reduce an image's palette (in Octave, though, rather than Python), so if you find this interesting you m
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by Niten 14y ago
Maybe some AP courses don't hold up as well, but for my part I took AP Calculus BC and Physics C in high school, and using solely what I learned there was able to ace my electricity and magnetism and calculus III courses at a well-respected
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by Niten 14y ago
Wait, Level3 is a patent troll now?
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I'm taking both of those also, and the math in ML isn't intensive... but there is much more exposure to calculus and linear algebra in ML than in Algorithms I, and while I agree with the other commenter who said Andrew Ng walks you through
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by Niten 14y ago
It's hard to take comments like this seriously when the private American health care system has worse outcomes and more than double the cost of numerous socialized systems. You can blindly chant "government isn't the solution" all you want,
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by Niten 14y ago
In truth, I wouldn't use anything other than a plain Python string to represent an artist's name, if that's the only thing about the artist you're interested in. But it's hard to have a meaningful conversation about such a contrived exampl
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by Niten 14y ago
> The real question is what does the function do, and how does it accomplish it? Precisely, and this is where git's simplicity shines compared to other systems. After one takes some time to learn git's data structures, it's trivial to
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by Niten 14y ago
With regard to your first link, I really have to take issue with code like the following as a measure of Java and Python's relative verbosity: class Artist: def __init__(self, name): self.name = name d
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by Niten 14y ago
> As for git, it's not nearly as simple as people portray it to be. git's famous simplicity is in the form of its well-designed and stable (and well-documented) underlying data structures, it has nothing to do with the size or runtime d
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by Niten 14y ago
> 3. You can't do closures in Java. You can. It's just incredibly verbose. It looks like you're confusing closures with lambda expressions. That's an example of (a more verbose functional equivalent of) a lambda expression, but it isn'
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by Niten 14y ago
> Perhaps the solution is to have legal weight (perhaps like 'Lawyer' or 'MD') behind the title, as countries like Canada have (the US has this to some extent, but it's not nearly as strong). But here you're taking it for granted that p

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